As a consequence of GDPR I have been getting email notifications, from various organisations I have dealt with, of their updated
spamming practices privacy policies.
John Lewis’ arrived the other day. I followed the link, and was a little surprised to find mention of the Land Registry as source of data...
https://www.johnlewis.com/customer-services/shopping-with-us/privacy-notice4. When do we collect your personal data?
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We collect data from publicly-available sources (such as Land Registry) when you have given your consent to share information or where the information is made public as a matter of law.
Land Registry is mentioned again later, too. Now, I know that much of the data held by Land Registry is public domain. What bothers me is, the implication that is available in a form that is useful to spammers. Are they selling bulk access to the Land Registry database, I wonder?
Please do not regard the previous sentence as a statement of fact, I mean it as a genuine question.
